Questions by pjh

Pub quiz question 7336 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which plot turns on a strawberry-patterned handkerchief?
  2. Answer: A: Othello
  3. Categories: Literature (6) General Knowledge (7)
Pub quiz question 7335 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Funchal is the capital of what island?
  2. Answer: A: Madeira
  3. Categories: Geography (6) General Knowledge (7)
Pub quiz question 7334 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What was Robert McCall's crime-fighting alias?
  2. Answer: A: The Equalizer
  3. Categories: 1980s (7) Television (7) Entertainment (8)
Pub quiz question 7333 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What's the common name for the ore uraninite?
  2. Answer: A: Pitchblende
  3. Categories: Chemistry (7) Science (7) General Knowledge (7)
Pub quiz question 7332 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What changed its font from "Helvetica Neue" to "Gotham" in May of 2014?
  2. Answer: A: Twitter
  3. Categories: General Knowledge (8) 2010s (8)
Pub quiz question 7331 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Budmouth; Emminster; Melchester; Mellstock; Sandbourne; Shaston?
  2. Answer: A: Places in Hardy's Wessex
  3. Categories: Literature (5) Geography (8) Connections (8) General Knowledge (8)
Pub quiz question 7330 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Six US flags; two golf balls; a golden olive branch; 96 bags of urine, faeces and vomit?
  2. Answer: A: Some of the items left on the moon
  3. Categories: Connections (8) Space (2) Science (5)
Pub quiz question 7329 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Pendle and Samlesbury, 1612; Belvoir, 1619; Bury St Edmunds 1645?
  2. Answer: A: Witch trials
  3. Categories: Religion (6) Connections (8) General Knowledge (8)
Pub quiz question 7328 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: OCR; AQA; Edexcel?
  2. Answer: A: Examination boards in the UK
  3. Categories: Connections (4) General Knowledge (4)
Pub quiz question 7327 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Aston Villa, Everton and Blackburn (1888 and again in 1992)?
  2. Answer: A: Original members of Football League and Premier League.
  3. Categories: Football (7) Sports (8) Connections (9)
Pub quiz question 7326 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Burchell's; Hartmann's; Grant's; Gréby's; Chapman's?
  2. Answer: A: Zebras
  3. Categories: Connections (7) Biology (6)
Pub quiz question 7325 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What links: Status Quo; Van Halen, Rick Wakeman and Eurythmics; Taylor Swift?
  2. Answer: A: 1980s Album Titles
  3. Notes: *: 1982, 1984; 1989
  4. Categories: Music (6) 1980s (6) Connections (7)
Pub quiz question 7324 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which of his works is in the background of Seurat's The Models?
  2. Answer: A: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
  3. Categories: Art (7) General Knowledge (8)
Pub quiz question 7323 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which Asian capital stands on the Chao Phraya river?
  2. Answer: A: Bangkok
  3. Categories: Geography (6) General Knowledge (6)
Pub quiz question 7322 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which Nobel prizewinner translated Shakespeare into Russian?
  2. Answer: A: Boris Pasternak
  3. Categories: Literature (8)
Pub quiz question 7321 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Who was "the most magical saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world"?
  2. Answer: A: Bagpuss
  3. Notes: *: First broadcast from Tuesday 12 February to Tuesday 7 May 1974
  4. Categories: 1970s (2) Television (2) Children (2) General Knowledge (2)
Pub quiz question 7320 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Conventional, reversible and horse-drawn are categories in what rural contests?
  2. Answer: A: Ploughing championships
  3. Categories: Sports (7) General Knowledge (8)
Pub quiz question 7319 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Cornelius Rooster is the mascot of what food brand?
  2. Answer: A: Kellogg's Corn Flakes
  3. Categories: Food (4) General Knowledge (5)
Pub quiz question 7318 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which photoshoot took place on 8 August 1969 in NW8?
  2. Answer: A: The Beatles' Abbey Road.
  3. Categories: Music (4) 1960s (6)
Pub quiz question 7317 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Who was the only US president with a PhD?
  2. Answer: A: Woodrow Wilson
  3. Notes: *: In "political science"
  4. Categories: Politics (8) General Knowledge (8)
Pub quiz question 7272 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What do CS Lewis (author: Chronicles of Narnia,) Aldous Huxley (author: Brave New World) and John F Kennedy (US president) have in common?
  2. Answer: A: They all died on the same day
  3. Notes: *: Friday 22nd November 1963
  4. Categories: Politics (7) Leisure (7) General Knowledge (7) Entertainment (7) Literature (7) 1960s (5)